Carex lepidocarpa Tausch

Much like no. 154 [Carex flava L.]; staminate spike on a long peduncle surpassing the uppermost pistillate spike; most pistillate spikes remote; perigynia 3.5–5 mm, conspicuously swollen, the body nearly as wide as long, abruptly contracted to the beak, the central ones spreading, only the lower deflexed; 2n=58, 68. Wet places in calcareous districts; Europe, and locally from N.S. to Nf. and e. Que. (C. flava var. l.)